RANGERS TAKEOVER REALITY BITES: AUSTERITY CONFIRMATION LEAVES FANS ANGRY AND CONFUSED
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- 6 days ago
- 3 min read
Austerity and sustainability have never meshed well with a superiority complex.
Unfortunately for our friends across the Clyde, all that is about to change, dramatically.
Living within one’s means may not be “The Rangers Way” but for the new club over at Ibrox, their new owner has made it clear: it’s the only way.
Ibrox Pomposity Punctured as Rangers Takeover Financial Reality Hits Home
The latest reports coming out of Delaware, where the company that now owns a controlling interest in the Ibrox Tribute Act is based, points to strict cost limits being imposed.
We all laughed the other day when QPR taunted our would-be rivals by announcing the signing of Kwame Poku, a well-publicised target for new manager Russell Martin, as signing for “THE” Rangers.
Of course this inevitably led to the usual outpouring of “ach, well, we never really wanted him anyway.” From Rangers fans and their compliant lapdogs in the Scottish press.
However, Rangers failing to land a player like this, one which you would think is within even their modest price range, indicates that the latest reporting from Ireland-based Journalist Phil MacGiollaBhain could well be on the money.
In his latest piece, Phil highlights that, while the new owners are willing to back their man with new signings, expect them to be in a significantly lower wage bracket than before.
Expect plenty more revisionist “he wasn't Rangers class anyway” kinds of stories over the next few weeks as it becomes all too obvious to the Ibrox hoards that they will struggle to compete with mid-level English championship and League 1 Clubs for players.
Of course, with a holding company now registered in the US, where we all know that already near non-existent business regulation and oversight is about to be slashed even further under the Trump regime, the ever-loyal, true blue Bears are going to demand answers, and the new owners will ignore them.
And the funniest part is, there is absolutely nothing they can do about it. These new owners bought Rangers to make a profit. There is no emotional investment, no sense of obligation to beat Celtic.
They simply want to turn this failed business into a profitable venture as soon as possible. And as I have already said, and Phil agrees with me on this, swingeing cuts to the current playing budget are the only way this can happen.
Why else do you think that Keith Jackson and company have been pulling double shifts lately, running puff-pieces to artificially inflate the value of players like Igamane, Diomande and Raskin?
There’s a fire sale at Ibrox and everyone who still has some semblance of resale value must go!
Once again, in their desperate drive to maintain the myth that not only is this club still the same Rangers, but that it also retains anywhere near the international clout or financial dexterity of Celtic, The Ibrox faithful have sold out to yet another group of shysters.
Watching this slowly dawn on them over the next couple of months, as well as their utter inability to stop it will be one of the greatest slow-moving implosions in Scottish Football history.
The banter years are well and truly here to stay, and the Rangers support have only themselves to blame.
I have to say, it couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of people!
